discoveredinalj | Discovered In The Mistletoe

Well, there's no getting away from it this time - Discovered In The Mistletoe has finally come to an end. Thank you so much to everyone who contributed, and made the Challenge even better than we'd ever imagined it could be (and we've got good imaginations *g*). People have been incredibly generous with their time and their talents and skills, and dialj has been the most wonderful place to hang around for the last six weeks. As ever, the stories and other creations can still be found here, and the quickest way to get to them is through the picture-link on the User Info Page.

We're going to leave you with a final party favour, which we hope you like, so do peek under the cut...

One Last Thing In The Mistletoe:

DIALj Bound: Discovered On A Gangplank

The link above will take you to the zine information page for a pdf file of all the stories and art contributed to the first ever Dialj Challenge - Discovered On A Gangplank. When we were first thinking about creating the Dialj comm, we had all sorts of ideas and wonderings, and one was that instead of having to print out all the fic separately it would be nice to have everything in one place at the end of a challenge, as a sort of... well as a sort of online zine that people could download and print out, and curl up in bed with on the long cold, snowy nights. Okay, that last bit was clearly me, and as I danced around in excited keyboarding in the middle of Starbucks, Josey eyed me sternly over the internet and suggested that maybe we wait and see if anyone would like to come play with us at all before we got carried away. Which was a very good point. But they did. And it's a good game. So this is the first of those DIALj Bound zines.

It's not fancy, and it's not glamorous, but we like it. (And there will be curling up involved. *g* Well, there's definitely snow outside...) The fic is exactly as it originally appeared in the Challenge, there has been no editing by anyone other than the authors. No doubt the layout will change and perhaps improve with practice. Comments and feedback are always welcome.

Of course not everybody has access to a printer, and so as an experiment I'll offer to print and post at cost issues of the zine to anyone who'd like one. I don't know how much at cost will be yet, and it will vary depending on where you live and postage! But the DIALj zines are not meant to be bought or sold, they are simply online files and potential hard copies of what the authors, artists and other creators have given freely to the Professionals fandom community. If anyone would like to talk about this, then do email me via the information on the User Info Page.

[EDIT TO ADD: Of course I forgot summat - knew I was... We have permission from contributors to the first three dialj challenges to include their work in DIALj Bound - could contributors to Discovered In The Mistletoe possibly indicate below, or email me, to let us know whether or not you give permission to include your work in that volume please? If you've already said it's okay to include you for other challenges, you don't need to let us know again! Thanks!]

You may notice that the link takes you to a zine info page that is part of a larger website. This is something I've been fiddling around with for well over a year now. It's always going to be a work in progress - although I hope it will progress quite quickly until the pages are mostly full! - but since we're sending people there for their party favours, feel free to have a wander round. Some rooms are quite full, others (such as the author listings) are still very echo-y... But if it might be useful and/or interesting to anyone other than myself well that'll be a bonus. *g* And contributions/information/feedback is very welcome - feel free to email me directly about that too, or to the link provided on the site.

Of course this isn't the end forever... Discoveredinalj will be posting more challenges, so keep your eyes peeled and your typing fingers poised towards the end of January. And I am reliably informed that the rest of the year is bubbling over with things to tickle your fancy and stimulate your desperately overworked muses. *g*

And we've always got the lads, right?

Happy 2007 everyone. And thanks again. *g*